Welcome to Week 51 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 51.

Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suites Nos. 1 and 2 - score (1) - score (2)
     recommended recordings: English Concert/Pinnock; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Marriner; English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 16 - score
     recommended recordings: Barenboim with Berlin Philharmonic; Uchida with English Chamber Orchestra/Tate

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade - score
      recommended recordings: Royal Philharmonic/Beecham; Concertgebouw/Kondrashin; many others!

Hans Werner Henze
El Cimarron - program notes - score (preview version)

Ice-T
O.G. Original Gangster

Dr. Dre
The Chronic

Welcome to Week 50 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 50.

Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 - score
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major, BWV 564 - score
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 - score
Fantasia in C minor, BWV 1121 - score
     recommended recordings: Weinberger; Hurford; Koopman; Biggs; Goode; Montero (bonus)

Johannes Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 2 - score
     recommended recordings: Vogt; Ax
Bonus: Scherzo, Op. 4 - score

Peter Maxwell Davies
Vesalii Icones
      recommended recording: Fires of London

Max Steiner
King Kong (film score, 1933)

Miles Davis
Get Up With It